Hossein Yari was born in 1965. He started acting in theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 first, then he joined the Iranian TV

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcaster, or IRIB, , formerly called the National Iranian Radio and Television until the Islamic revolution of 1979, is a giant Iranian corporation in control of radio and television which is among the largest media organizations in Asia and Pacific region, and a regular...

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The TV series Shabe Dahom (شب دهم – The Tenth Night), directed by Hassan Fathi

Hassan Fathi

Hassan Fathi is an Iranian film and TV series director.-Filmography :* Pahlevanan Nemimirand - * Shabe Dahom - * Roshantar Az Khamooshi -...

, owes much of its popularity to Yari's performance. Yari won the best actor in a leading role for his performance in maturity 1999.

In 2005, Yari starred in the internationally acclaimed film Dame sobh

Dame sobh

Dame sobh is an award-winning 2005 independent film from Iranian director Hamid Rahmanian. It depicts a man on death row whose execution is repeatedly delayed because the family of the victim does not appear for his execution...

(دم صبح – Day Break) as a prisoner on Death Row

Death row

Death row signifies the place, often a section of a prison, that houses individuals awaiting execution. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution , even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.After individuals are found...

 whose execution (with the slim chance of a pardoning) keeps getting postponed.

Filmography

• Mim Mesle Madar - 2006
• Dame sobh
  Dame sobh
  Dame sobh is an award-winning 2005 independent film from Iranian director Hamid Rahmanian. It depicts a man on death row whose execution is repeatedly delayed because the family of the victim does not appear for his execution...
  
  (Day Break) - 2005
• Naqmeh - 2002
• Shabe Dahom (The Tenth Night; TV series) - 2001
• Holy Mary - 2000
• Maturity - 1999
• Angeles Man - 1998
• Silence Fly - 1998
• Donyaye varaneh - 1997
• Sor'at - 1995
• Akharin Marhaleh - 1995
• Hamleh Beh H3 - 1994
• Mantagheh Mamnoon'e - 1994
• Jaye Amin - 1993
• Goriz - 1992
• Atash dar Kharman - 1991
• Hoor dar Atash - 1991

External links

• Hossein Yari at the Iranian internet movie database sourehcinema (Persian)
• Hossein Yari at an Iranian internet movie database iranmania (incomplete filmography; Persian)